Are ninjas boring?

Drez

So, it's that time of year again when I start fantasizing about being a ninja, but I'm worried that I might end up with a lot of "ho hum"s instead of "holy shit a ninja!"s.

I've spoken to a number of people now who have given me mixed opinions about being a ninja and some of them think it's a little boring while others seemed to think it was cool. I guess it's a little played out at this point, but whatever. It's cheap and I think it won't make me look like a total fatass since black is slimming.

So...thoughts? And if it wasn't clear, I'm talking about Halloween.

admanb

It's kinda boring, in my opinion.

Hahnsoo1

It's cheap. Do it. It's not about the costume, but the candy and the celebrations.

I knew more than one friend who would go to halloween festivities as the classic sheet ghost.

MushroomStick

Worst case scenario, at least you wouldn't be as bad as the guy who's "too cool" to dress up for a friggin Halloween party.

If you were to make an attempt at the ninja from Ninja Gaiden, Metal Gear, one of the ones from Mortal Kombat, or maybe one that also happens to be a turtle, that could be not boring.

B:L

Ninjas are cool, but Doctors get the ladies.

You know what to do.

Enc

All depends on the level of intensity you convey. Dressed as a ninja in more than just black cloth and a ski mask and crouching/stalking everywhere you go? Interesting. Standing about in a ninja costume? boring.

You have to sell it.

TeaSpoon

Be a colorful anime ninja.

You'll be highly visible in the dark, though, and maybe not immediately recognizable as a ninja, but at least you won't be boring.

Or go as a specific ninja, like that guy from Ninja Gaiden:

Drez

I was thinking of being a ninja pirate.

Or even a ninja pirate robot.

Or go all out and be a ninja pirate robot zombie.

But I have a few problems with this idea:

a) There are no ninja pirate, ninja pirate robot, or ninja pirate robot zombie all-inclusive costume packages available for purchase.
b) I have to keep the cost down.
c) I'm very lazy. Seriously, just writing this post is kind of making me sleepy.

But lets say I forced myself to trying to throw something like that together...

Any thoughts?

jtan

It might help to stylize it as much as possible while remaining in cost. Give your ninja an offbeat theme, like being a music ninja and throwing CDs as shurikens (not the best example, but creativity yields better ones), it might make it a little more interesting than standard ninja all-black costume.

Sir Headless VII

A ninja pirate robot zombie is worse than a regular ninja. To my mind a ninja is kind of lazy but I think pretty much any bought costume is so take what you want from that.

On the other hand if you go as one of these ninjas I will give you mad props.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

Ninja isn't creative at all, so if you do it, you have to do a good job with it. Generic ninja costumes are boring, but a Ryu costume would be pretty cool.

This goes double for weird combination costumes. If you want to be a cowboy pirate ninja zombie you'll probably just wind up looking like a dude who put on a blindfold before getting dressed and then tripped and fell on a makeup kit

RadicalTurnip

B:L wrote:

Ninjas are cool, but Doctors get the ladies.

You know what to do.

Exactly this. I did this a few years ago when I was in College. Halloween day I dressed as young McNinja to go to all of my classes:
http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p8/

And then Halloween night at the party, I went as Dr. McNinja with a lab coat and stethoscope. Cheap and easy costumes, both, especially if you know the super-secret guarded ninja-trick of making a black t-shirt into a ninja mask.
It most Certainly couldn't be found at such an easy website like youtube, certainly not a here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=einMMqOze3U

Drez

Actually a Dr. Ninja would work.

Drez

Sir Headless VII wrote:

A ninja pirate robot zombie is worse than a regular ninja.

That is scandalous.

Sir Headless VII wrote:

To my mind a ninja is kind of lazy but I think pretty much any bought costume is so take what you want from that.

On the other hand if you go as one of these ninjas I will give you mad props.

I did have a good idea for a built costume, but it's kind of a lot of work and potentially a lot of money.

Ruckus

Great White Ninja.

Additionally, as a side note, Ninja are, for the most part, incredibly boring, as it's unlikely anyone but their target ever knows they're there. And their target has exactly enough time to think "Oh wow, a Ninja!" before the poison takes effect.

Darkewolfe

The only time ninja costumes work is when you have like 30 other people doing it and you ninja flash mob.

Dropping Loads

Drez wrote:

Sir Headless VII wrote:

A ninja pirate robot zombie is worse than a regular ninja.

That is scandalous.

Lashing a bunch of memes together makes a pretty bad raft.

There was another thread here recently for bald-dude costumes where the person ended up going as a ghost, but then had a Hitman costume on underneath. The double-disguise thing would also work really well for a ninja.

Drez

I actually really like the idea of a doctor ninja.

What would I need?

- Ninja costume (black pants/top/mask)
- Lab/doctor coat
- Swords
- Stethoscope
- Shuriken
- Clipboard with blank medical chart

Hmm.

Drez

Dropping Loads wrote:

Drez wrote:

Sir Headless VII wrote:

A ninja pirate robot zombie is worse than a regular ninja.

That is scandalous.

Lashing a bunch of memes together makes a pretty bad raft.

There was another thread here recently for bald-dude costumes where the person ended up going as a ghost, but then had a Hitman costume on underneath. The double-disguise thing would also work really well for a ninja.

The NPZR is kind of a meme unto itself at this point. I mean, I understand what you are saying and, of course, the NPZR itself was lashed together at some point from existing pop culture components. But at this point it has transcended into its own meme without compartmentalization.

peterdevore

I was going to say 'find something swordlike and stick a bunch of fruit on it, be a fruit ninja', but I like the Dr McNinja suggestion better.

-SPI-

Go as a Norwegian ninja.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wNVjI9bJIk

143999

If you're going to a party, might I suggest not going?

Drez

143999 wrote:

If you're going to a party, might I suggest not going?

Uh, what?

schuss

The key to dressing up as a ninja is to be totally awesome. If you're jumping and somersaulting around and have a fellow ninja to duel with, you're all set. If you're just standing around like a dork in a ninja costume, that's a problem. Think about how a ninja would do things, then do things that way.

mts

or find someone dressed as a pirate and harass them all night

Madpoet

Ninja flash mob:

Euphoriac

Go as Gangplank or Shen, or a horrible amalgam of both!

No-one will know who you really are!